MieMuseumsMeiwa
Saiku Historical Museum
The palace of the unmarried imperial princess sent to serve at Ise; excavation confirmed its grid plan.
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MieArchitectureOwase
Kumano Kodo Iseji
Stone paving laid so the rain could not wash the path away - a structure built for walking that became the landscape.
MieContemporary ArtKumano
Hana no Iwaya
No building at all: a 45-metre rock is the deity, and twice a year a rope is strung from its summit.
Tsu
Pseudo-Western Buildings of Tsu
As the provincial capital, Tsu keeps Meiji public buildings in which local carpenters read Western style their own way.
MieArchitectureIse
Okage Yokocho
A street rebuilt in the gable-fronted form typical of Ise, showing how a pilgrimage town was shaped.
MieArchitectureKuwana
Tado Taisha
Halls set along a mountain stream, with a rite in which horses charge straight up an earth bank.
Owase
Owase Cypress Forestry
Cypress grown in one of Japan's wettest places; dense planting and thinning rule the slopes into pattern.
Iga
Iga Ueno Castle Town
Streets deliberately bent at right angles for defence, the layout still as Todo Takatora planned it.
Kuwana
Ring Levees of Kuwana
Whole villages ringed by their own levees, each homestead keeping a stone-raised refuge building against flood.
MieArchitectureYokkaichi
Industrial Landscape of Yokkaichi
A petrochemical complex that at night becomes an assembly of light - a landscape that also carries a pollution history.
Shima
Fishing Villages of Shima
Stone piled into the narrow inlets to make level ground, and houses set along it - a village shaped by terrain.
MieArchitectureKuwana
Flood Works of Nagashima
Levees built by the Satsuma domain under shogunal order still divide three rivers and govern the terrain.
Iga
Thatched Houses of Iga
Thatched farmhouses around the basin rim, the pitch and orientation of each roof set by wind and snow.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
MIHO MUSEUM
By I.M. Pei, architect of the Louvre pyramid: a tunnel bored through a mountain and a suspension bridge, modelled on a Chinese vision of paradise.
ShigaArt & CraftsMoriyama
Sagawa Art Museum
Three pavilions seeming to float on water, including an underground tea room designed by the fifteenth Raku master himself.
ShigaArchitectureOtsu
Enryakuji Konpon Chudo
The Tendai head temple, where the icon sits below the worshippers so the two meet at eye level - a section found nowhere else.
ShigaArchitecture
ShigaArchitectureOtsu
Ishiyamadera
Halls built on a mass of wollastonite rock; its pagoda is the oldest of its type, and Murasaki is said to have begun Genji here.
ShigaArchitectureOtsu
Hiyoshi Taisha
A shrine form unique to this site, with a raised underfloor space and eaves extending on three sides.
ShigaArchitectureOtsu
Lake Biwa Canal
Designed by a 23-year-old engineer: a tunnel bored through the mountains and an incline that hauled boats up the slope on rails.
ShigaArchitectureOtsu
Ukimido, Katata
A hall projecting out over the lake, drawn by Hiroshige - a composition made of nothing but water and architecture.
ShigaArchitectureHikone
Hikone Castle
A National Treasure keep that combines three kinds of gable to make a small tower look far more complex.
ShigaMuseumsHikone
Hikone Castle Museum
The lord's palace rebuilt in timber to hold the Ii family's red-lacquered armour and its Noh masks and robes.
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